throwing sulphuric acid on his friend.

Symonds, 29, of Random Lane, Warwick, was convicted by a Supreme Court jury earlier this year of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to burn, maim and disfigure William Henry Santucci, 35, of Pembroke, with a corrosive substance.

Santucci, of Cedar Avenue, received third-degree burns to 90 percent of his face and also burns to his arms and chest on April 22 when he visited Symonds' home.

Santucci told the court at the trial that he went to Symonds' home to collect some belongings he had left there several hours earlier.

He stood outside and called to Symonds and asked him to return some tobacco he had left inside.

Instead, Symonds opened the trailer door, handed the tobacco to him, and for no apparent reason threw acid in his face.

Puisne Judge the Hon. Mr. Justice Meerbaux jailed Symonds for 18 months for the offences.

He was represented by lawyer Mr. Mark Pettingill. Mr. Melvin Douglas appeared for the Crown.

RESIDENTS WITHOUT TELEPHONES BUC Residents without telephones People are fuming after being without their phones for the last fortnight.

Two weeks after Hurricane Felix struck the Island, some residents are still experiencing problems with their phone lines.

Bermuda Telephone Company operations manager Mr. Collington Perinchief told The Royal Gazette that "the majority of phone lines have been repaired'' but there are "still a residue of problems''.

Mr. Perinchief said there were no poles down but the phone wires had been chafed and stretched by the high winds and wet weather the Island had recently experienced.

He said these wires were "breaking down'' which caused the troubles to customers' phones but promised all lines would be back to normal by Tuesday.

UK CABLE REPAIRED TV UK cable repaired Cable & Wireless has restored British Broadcasting Corporation's world television service to Bermuda.

Company spokesman Mr. John Instone said a faulty transatlantic cable line linked to the UK had been repaired.

A cable ship retrieved the faulty section, some 460 kilometres west of Ireland, from a depth of water of more than 4.8 kilometres and repairs were carried out at sea.

The interruption of service on August 19 required C&W to re-route some international telecommunications traffic via satellite and other fibre optic cable routes.

BBC World TV's feed to DeFontes Broadcasting Company Ltd. used the same satellite antenna that was being used to restore eastbound telecommunications traffic.